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Contact data |
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Communication
Via Mazzini 5, 21100 Varese, Italy
Tel: +39 0332 218934
Fax: +39 0332 218919
E-mail: claudio.gentile@uninsubria.it |
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Biography |
Claudio Gentile received
a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Milan (Italy) in
1999. From 1999 to 2001 he has been a Research Assistant at the same
university. Since 2001, he is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science
at University of Insubria, Varese (Italy). |
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Qualifications and awards |
Site manager of the PASCAL
Network of Excellence (European Union, Sixth Programme Framework,
IST) |
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Research interests |
On-line (Sequential) Prediction Algorithms, Statistical learning Theory, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Information Theory, Information Retrieval. |
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Teaching experience
and appointments |
His teaching experience
ranges from courses in Machine Learning to Theoretical Computer Science
to Data Structures and Algorithms to Probability and Statistics.
He is at present a member of the senate of University of Insubria. |
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Representative
publications |
- A second-order perceptron
algorithm
with N. Cesa-Bianchi, A. Conconi,
SIAM Journal on Computing, 34/3 (2005), pp. 640-668.
- On the generalization ability of on-line learning algorithms
with N. Cesa-Bianchi, A. Conconi,
IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 50/9 (2004), pp. 2050-2057.
- A new approximate maximal margin classification algorithm
Journal of Machine Learning Research 2 (2001), pp. 213-242.
- Adaptive and self-confident on-line learning algorithms
with P. Auer, N. Cesa-Bianchi,
Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 64/1 (2002).
- The robustness of the p-norm algorithms
Machine Learning, 53/3 (2003), pp. 265-299.
- Improved lower bounds for learning from noisy examples: an information-theoretic
approach
with D. Helmbold
Information and Computation 166/2 (2001), pp. 133-155. |
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